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The new DC-4, to be launched soon by the Douglas Airplane Company, was assembled like a ship, in a sort of dry dock. The DC-4 has nearly three times the gross weight of the big Douglas.
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Analysis The Canadair North Star Vs The Douglas DC-4 By Jake Hardiman Published Sep 7, 2021 The Douglas DC-4 was a key piston-engined airliner that entered service in the 1940s. Boasting four engines, there were also military variants of the aircraft that, owing to the timing of the Second World War, actually ended up being far more numerous.
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The Douglas DC-4 is a four-engine piston aircraft designed and developed by Douglas Aircraft Company in the late 1930s. The 22- to 48-passenger aircraft performed its first flight in February 1942 with United Airlines. The manufacturer built 80 examples of the DC-4 and over 1,150 of the military variants (C-54 and R5D).
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Douglas DC4 / C54 Skymaster based at the HARS aviation museum in Australia detailed and narrated tour. USAF QANTAS More details from the museum: https://hars.
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$Donate? Douglas DC-4, DC-6, & DC-7 * Following development of the landmark DC-3 / C-47 twin-piston airliner, the Douglas firm went on to develop a four-engine successor, which emerged as the "DC-4", mostly produced as the military "C-54".
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The Douglas DC-4 is an American four-engined , propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Military versions of the plane, the C-54 and R5D, served during World War II, in the Berlin Airlift and into the 1960s. From 1945, many civil airlines operated the DC-4 worldwide.
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The Douglas Aircraft Company's DC-4 conducted its maiden flight on June 7, 1938. It was a hugely successful four-engined aircraft used for civilian and military passenger and cargo transportation. Military versions of the plane were designated C-54 and R5D. The DC−4 was designed to be the airline industry's "dream" airplane - "a Grand Hotel.
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List of Douglas DC-4 operators DC-4 operated by the Dutch Dakota Association in the "Flying Dutchman" colours of KLM This is a list of operators of the Douglas DC-4, Douglas C-54, Canadair North Star and Douglas R5D . Civil operators Aden Aden Airways Note 1 Algeria Air Algerie [1] Antigua and Barbuda Seagreen Air Transport [1]
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The Douglas DC-4E was an American experimental airliner that was developed before World War II. The DC-4E never entered production due to being superseded by an entirely new design, the Douglas DC-4 / C-54, which proved very successful.
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Power Plant: (C-54A Skymaster) Four 1,007 kw (1,350 hp) Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7 Twin Wasp fourteen-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engines Specifications: Wingspan: 35.81 m (117 ft 6 in) Length: 28.6 m (93 ft 10 in) Height: 8.38 m (27 ft 6 in) Wing area: 135.64 m² (1,460 sq ft) Max speed at 3,050 m (10,000 ft): 426 km/h (265 mph)
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Douglas DC-4 of Pacific Western Airlines in 1959 This is a list of civil and military variants of the Douglas DC-4: Civil variants DC-4 Initial prototype. One built. [1] DC-4-1009 Postwar passenger model. This civil model could carry up to 88 passengers. DC-4-1037 Postwar freight model. DC-4A Civilian model designation for the C-54 Skymaster. [1]
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The DC-4 was found to admirably suit the USAAF's requirement for a long range cargo transport, and 1162 were built through the war years.
As was the case with the DC-3, the end of war meant that much of that number were surplus and sold to the world's airlines. Further to this Douglas built an additional 78 DC-4s to new orders.
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The Douglas DC-4 was a four piston engine airliner.It was based on the DC-3, and in a similar way it was produced in both civilian and military versions from 1942 to 1947.The military version is known as C-54 Skymaster, many of these were converted to civilian use after WWII. 80 DC-4s and 1,163 C-54s were built.. The C-54 was the most commonly used aircraft in the Berlin airlift.
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Douglas DC-4 MTOW: 73,000 lb. Range: 2,000 miles Speed: 215 mph Seats: 44 passengers Length: 94 ft. Wingspan: 118 ft. Height: 28 ft. Engines: 4 Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R-2000 HP or Thrust: 1,450 hp No. flown by DL: 8 former military C-54B aircraft modified by Douglas RoutesFlown:
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Published Feb 25, 2022 The DC-4 was fitted with a modest autopilot system that relayed altitude and directional hold. Photo: Bill Larkins via Wikimedia Commons This month marked the 80th anniversary of the Douglas DC-4's first flight.
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The Douglas DC-4 is a four-engine long-range Airliner with a capacity of maximum 50 passengers and a military utility transport aircraft produced by the US-American manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company. The military main-variant was the C-54 Skymaster. Only 79 civil DC-4 have been produced by Douglas.